Persona 6 Is Real, Castlevania's Back & Summer Showcase Season Delivered

Greg (00:01.192)
Showcase season just dropped, and we were watching all of it, so you didn't have to. Summer Game Fest gave us Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, and a horror sequel nobody expected. Then Xbox showed up, locked-in release dates, confirmed an exclusive, and officially announced Persona 6. So we got a lot to cover. As always, be sure to hit that subscribe button wherever you're listening, and subscribe to our press play channel.

Gaming newsletter for the latest gaming stories, right in your inbox. Also, check out our Patreon for our exclusive GZ Chop Shop Uncut podcast, where we go more in depth on the topics we cover here, but with less filter. Links in the show description. Now, let's get to it. Woo! I got a I got a precursor this, but you guys have no idea how hard that intro was for me.

That was a struggle intro for some reason today. But if you guys want to see the bloopers, you gotta go check that out on Patreon. I don't I don't wanna talk about it.

Ty (01:07.445)
Wait till the five minute mark and I'll say my piece. We got ad money to worry about. And I can't say what I want to say. it was rough. good times.

Uly (01:10.862)
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Greg (01:13.396)
It was so it was rough. I don't know what happened. It was rough. All right. So Summer Game Fest hit, and it seems like a lot of people loved it. there was a lot of surprise announcements. you know, Alien Isolation 2, which for those who remember the first one is

Uly (01:15.99)
Well, it was a love time.

Greg (01:41.584)
A very well loved game, especially because of at its time the revolutionary AI that was it was a scary xenomorph. Like you you you were living the alien universe, and it was a very well received game. And a lot of people wanted a second one that they weren't sure we were gonna get one. Now we're getting one. And I know for you, Ty, Resident Evil Veronica.

Ty (02:06.869)
Yeah. I hate that they dropped the code and just made it Veronica.

Greg (02:09.477)
Yeah, it's not Code, it's Resident Evil Veronica.

Ty (02:13.407)
For all of you that don't know, right, I am a huge Resident Evil fan with the exception of the first persons, right? I do not do first person horror. It's a thing. Call you. Call me whatever you want, but it's a thing for me. I d nope, nope, not my viewpoint. I like to see my body running away. Not

Greg (02:32.915)
Yeah, Capcom did you dirty with a Requiem.

Ty (02:38.837)
What? god. Capcom did me dirty. No, Capcom did me right with Recreum. Capcom did me dirty with seven and eight.

Greg (02:49.587)
Yeah.

Ty (02:51.273)
They hey play this new Resident Evil. Cool. Is it first person? Absolutely not. Been like that since I was a child. Nope. But for those of you that are wondering why we mentioned Veronica, Co. Veronica was one of my favorite Resident Evil games. And the reason why, it was one of the hardest Resident Evil to actually play. Co Veronica, you ended up in a situation where

Greg (02:55.847)
Absolutely not. Okay.

Ty (03:18.739)
You were stuck in Antarctica for a chunk of the game and an I island for another chunk of the game. You had less resources, corners were tighter, rooms were darker. Yes, Yuli. This is yes. rooms were darker, and if you were not careful about your resource management, you would end up getting stuck midway through the game with nowhere to go except for having a knife.

Greg (03:34.525)
Yeah.

Ty (03:48.489)
versus a tyrant. I want you to imagine how that fight went for a lot of people with limited resources.

Greg (03:55.987)
Yeah. And it seems like that's a huge focus where Claire's involved in in games. And also the thing that a lot of diehard Resident Evil fans know, but a lot of people, the I want to say overall audience of Resident Evil might not know is just how important to the story and the lore Code Veronica is, and how it ties a lot of what people thought was loose ends together.

Ty (04:25.143)
Yeah, so a lot of people don't realize because they skip Co Veronica because Co Veronica originally was a Dreamcast exclusive and then it got ported over to the PlayStation. Well, the PlayStation 2. Co Veronica is where you discover Wesker ended up combining the virus into himself to end up with the super speed and everything, right?

So a lot of people got very confused with the brief moment you saw Wesker in four and his eyes were going red. And the beginning of five where he was dodging bullets like nobody's business. They're like, What the hell happened here with Wesker? Co Veronica explains it. However, because it wasn't a number game, a lot of people just was like, this ain't nothing. Why do I gotta worry about it? It's a spinoff game. Whereas

Greg (05:22.846)
Mm-hmm.

Ty (05:23.567)
Code Veronica is like probably one of the key games you need to play to understand everything that Wesker was doing, including his love for eugenics.

Greg (05:36.605)
Yeah. Yeah. And you know, I I when a lot of people are questioning like why it was called why it's called, you know, R. E. Veronica and not Co Veronica. And I think it's the reason is the very reason you mentioned is since it wasn't a main line, tet even though it technically is, but it wasn't a main line game, a lot of people glazed over it. So I think they renamed it this way.

Ty (05:39.361)
There's a yeah.

Greg (06:05.522)
To show that it's all always been a mainline game. They just changed the name and they saw, like, okay, well, a lot of people missed out on the game because we didn't call it Resident Evil, you know, 4.5 or something. So I think it's a smart move on their part because just call it Resident Evil, Veronica, and they're guaranteeing themselves that more people will play, get the questions answered. Because a lot of people already ask those questions, like, why, you know.

When are going to tie this in? And they're probably like, We've already covered that. That was already covered in code Veronica.

Ty (06:37.634)
And that's the other thing with Veronica. Well, Co-Veronica. I can't say Veronica just yet. And Co-Veronica, one of the other major factors that comes about, that is the last Resident Evil game with the camera being the overhead. You have to rotate the camera just to see everything. That's the last one that did it. Because then RE4 came out, and RE4 ended up going into the more over-the-shoulder

Greg (06:54.172)
Yeah. The top yeah.

Ty (07:06.784)
when you aim and everything else like that in a crisper third person view instead of, hey, I'ma shoot around this corner because I heard a zombie and I don't know if I hit or not.

Greg (07:18.258)
Yeah. So before diving into more specific games, just a breakdown for anyone who might not have watched the show, a little bit of a list of some of the big titles that were announced. We got Rayman Legends Retold coming out, Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis, which despite it being from Amazon, looks good. Looks like they're still trying to honor the Square Enix era. Dynasty Warriors three, the complete edition remastered.

Ty (07:46.798)
Yeah, I'll get there. I'll get there.

Greg (07:47.986)
Yeah. for anyone who's into the Toy Stories, there's the Toy Story Retro Collection, Resident Evil, as we mentioned, the Wolf Among Us remastered because we're not gonna get another Wolf Among Us.

Ty (07:59.223)
Huh! Wait, hold on. You stop right there.

Uly (08:03.096)
Whoa, whoa, whoa, it wasn't announced on that one.

Greg (08:06.739)
The Wolf Among Us Remastered?

Uly (08:09.014)
No, no, I know what Ty's talking about. Yeah.

Ty (08:09.056)
No. But sequel. There's a sequel that was announced.

Greg (08:14.105)
so who's doing that?

Ty (08:17.782)
Who same studio, Wolf Among Us 2, is coming out. That's what I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. contrary. Uh-huh.

Uly (08:22.22)
Yeah, I was gonna say.

Greg (08:22.284)
excuse me 'cause I was sure that that was dead in the water. Cause how many years has it been?

Ty (08:28.312)
Hold on. Before y'all start clipping things up, when he said this is all we're getting, wait, hold on, what time are we at? Alright, cool. Wait, two fucking minutes.

Uly (08:28.332)
No, no, they announced too. What are you talking?

Uly (08:38.478)
This means...

There a lot has happened when the game announcements that when we talked about it a lot of us had our emotions but a lot of went under the the radar because we got excited over one and then missed like the other ten for some reason

Greg (08:58.727)
Yeah, 'cause I remember when the thirsting for the Wolf Among Us too, and then it was like years and it was just like, Yeah, it's not gonna happen. So I didn't know. so yeah, my bad, y'all. Y'all are gonna get a second game.

Ty (09:14.092)
Yeah yeah yeah. W two two is a thing. Two was announced like almost immediately after the first one got announced.

Greg (09:21.523)
All right, everybody put your pitchforks down. Y'all can calm down.

Uly (09:25.154)
No, type in the comments and it'll let us know. We appreciate the, what's that word called? Not the feedback. No. What does YouTube like? The word when people just comment. No, when YouTube just likes it, when people just comment. I forgot what that word is. Interactions. Thank you. Engagement.

Ty (09:30.21)
Feedback.

The hate, engagement.

Greg (09:35.987)
Keyboard warriors?

Greg (09:41.467)
Interaction?

Ty (09:43.704)
They engage me. Yeah.

Greg (09:45.363)
Look, see, it ain't just me. Sometimes some words just don't work with you for the day. We don't use them big words often.

Uly (09:50.174)
We don't use them words a lot.

Now we don't use them words often because we use sentence enhancers more than anything.

Greg (09:58.991)
Yeah, there you go. Final Fantasy Seven is finally gonna conclude with Revelation. So that three game epic is finally gonna come to an end. Then we got Godzilla destroy all monsters.

Uly (10:10.03)
Yeah.

Hmm

Greg (10:15.237)
And I I don't know how I feel about the Hitman Classic Trilogy Remastered.

Ty (10:19.758)
Uly (10:21.236)
It was bound to happen.

Ty (10:22.9)
It was bound to happen. It is kinda weird in my case, 'cause I'm like, didn't y'all just do a remaster of one of them?

Uly (10:32.014)
I think they... Yeah.

Greg (10:32.084)
That's what I was think yeah, when Hitman three came out. There was like that update. But you know, hey, whatever. Remasters still sell. Halo campaign evolved and tie. I knew you and I excited. The Persona 4 revival.

Uly (10:39.871)
Asian. Yep.

Ty (10:47.426)
Yeese. And and and and the creepy ass announcement of Persona Six.

Uly (10:49.004)
Not just that one.

Greg (10:49.098)
there was N.

That was creepy and I I'm like, okay.

Ty (10:56.588)
Creepy as shit, and I loved every second of it.

Uly (10:59.554)
Damn right.

Greg (11:02.77)
Like I I was like, okay, you might be getting your wish. We might be dealing with an older cast.

Ty (11:10.626)
That's good. Again, I don't want to feel like I'm hunching on a fucking 16 year old or a teacher, right? When your only two options are, hey, let's go with this high school girl that you're in high school with, but I'm a grown ass man. And let's go with that with this 30 something year old teacher. We close to the same age, but my character's 16. You you feel conflicted.

Greg (11:15.347)
Ha ha ha.

Greg (11:24.402)
Mm-hmm.

Greg (11:35.795)
Yeah, it it looks like Persona Six is in going to be going in a in a darker direction. Yeah, and and you know what? I I agree. It's long overdue. I think they probably stuck with the theme that they did because it gave more flexibility for their characters. Because when you think about it, you know, adults

Ty (11:41.462)
Adults here face.

Greg (12:03.87)
They got jobs, they got responsibilities. And I think that's why a lot of creators, especially in Japan, they stick to the younger college, yeah, like closer to the college age because they still got a little bit of freedom, not quite as much responsibility. And it helps with, you know, coming of age, character discovery. When you pick a protagonist's

Ty (12:13.464)
College try. not college. The high school try.

Uly (12:20.92)
freedom.

Greg (12:32.488)
an unnamed protagonist that you're supposed to basically live vicariously through.

Ty (12:37.612)
Now give me that twenty five year old burnout.

Greg (12:40.532)
Yeah, I was about to say it's like when you get like you know, all the adults, they're gonna be like worn down, disgruntled, trust issues. They they're not gonna have time for those adventures. And realistically, we're we're probably gonna be like, well, this doesn't quite work. But if Persona Six leans into that and they make it work, then I say, good, that sets a standard that it can work. And I say, let's let's do that. but also no big surprise.

Uly (12:40.809)
Yeah.

Greg (13:09.278)
GTA six didn't appear. Is anyone surprised? I no. Yeah. They they've cast their shadow.

Uly (13:11.758)
No What was more surprising was more surprising is that Godzilla announced their game the same month as GTA 6 every other fucking game

Ty (13:13.07)
Choose their activities.

Greg (13:21.502)
Oof.

Ty (13:21.752)
The only two games the only two games that are quite literally coming out in November right now. Godzilla and Barbie.

Greg (13:32.776)
I saw

Uly (13:32.876)
Yo Hey, no, no, it makes perfect sense because some people other people gotta play some other games what I was like Look if I had a hundred dollars and my choices were godzilla destroy all monsters or gta 6 i'm sorry, but Godzilla destroy all monsters i'm a kaiju man. That's that's my that's it

Ty (13:34.862)
Yeah

Ty (13:51.348)
It's just the irony of it all. God damn it got dark.

Greg (13:51.356)
And you know

Uly (13:57.966)
hahahaha

Greg (13:58.565)
For context, he's sitting next to his window.

Ty (14:01.539)
Yeah. Hold on.

Uly (14:02.894)
No, he's looking in the mirror.

Greg (14:05.16)
No, one of the games that did appear that actually surprised me and I and as a Trekie, I I'm gonna say we're about to eat really good. we are about to get a game that has been a long time coming and it's

Uly (14:13.03)
Trekkie get out of here. yeah.

Ty (14:13.943)
y'all about to get a game for sure.

Uly (14:20.854)
I got a question for the potential future game coming out. Do you want like Mass Effect kind of game with that immense story, travel, bonding with your crewmates or do you want more?

kind of like streamlined, just linear story.

Greg (14:39.816)
Like like a streamlined story.

Ty (14:45.122)
I won't lie, I'm not a trikey, however, I always assume most trikeys will want a story about Prakar.

Greg (14:53.06)
No. No.

Ty (14:56.106)
About him in his younger days, the drunk and fucking raging captain.

Uly (14:56.27)
Or do you want your own captain?

Uly (15:01.517)
Damn right.

Greg (15:01.54)
Okay. Because at the same time

Picard Picard in his younger days.

Ty (15:08.13)
Well r also remember everybody thinks Picard is what fucking

Uly (15:13.378)
William Shatner.

Ty (15:15.202)
Yes. What was his w was Yeah, everybody thinks how Kirk is. That's what Bricard was. Well, everybody thinks Kirk was how Bricard was in younger age, and Bricard was how Kirk was and they're polar fucking opposites.

Uly (15:16.184)
for guys in the Kirk.

Greg (15:32.041)
Yeah, Picard, he got out of his roughish cadet days early because he took a knife to the heart that almost ended him early. And that's what changed him, unlike Kirk, who he was a genius who just had

Ty (15:34.902)
was the badass.

Greg (15:56.923)
Issues with authority, but not just because, but because a lot of the rules didn't make sense. And he would prove why the rules didn't make sense. He was iconic for hacking the Kobayashimaru test, the unbeatable test, and all of that. So, like their diet they had some similarities, but not as many as like a lot of people who watch on surface level think. So they are very two different people. and Picard is also like very by the

Book, unless extreme circumstances call for it. Riker was more of the one that could go off book sometimes, and that's why he liked him as a first officer. but yeah, a Star Trek horror game I've always felt was unavoidable. You cannot have a universe as expansive as Star Trek, more expansive than Star Wars. And everything, and they've even touched into horror elements. I'm like, you're going out into the unknown. There is no way you can't have.

A horror Star Trek. That's why I think it was Quentin Tarantino who wanted to pitch a horror Star Trek movie.

Ty (17:03.266)
Yeah, but they said it sounded like too much like Event Horizon, which again

Uly (17:03.598)
Ciao!

Uly (17:08.074)
makes sense because event horizon pretty much was kind of like a horror star trek movie

Greg (17:12.446)
Yeah. So at some point, and even on Star Trek Online, the current season, co I think it's called Corrupted, is kind of horror themed even in their key art. So it's it's always been there. And I think for the most part, if handled with respect to the source material, Star Trek fans won't have a problem with a horror themed game.

Cause I I saw it and I was totally for Shadow Frontier, yes, because there is so much out in there in the Star Trek universe.

Ty (17:39.306)
no.

Uly (17:44.686)
There was some horror, there were some horror episodes with Picard, because that's the only one I watched was the Picard Saga. And I remember there being some like pretty intense episodes.

Greg (17:56.809)
Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of creatures they cover that would be the stuff of nightmares, but they were only around for an episode, and then we went back to our explorations and stuff. And and so yeah, I would say to answer your original question, Yuli, I don't think Star Trek can be contained to one type. Like you can have an expansive mass effect like Star Trek game, and that'll work. Star Trek Online is

kind of like that. and you can have a streamline game where Shadow Frontier is more like, this is the story, this is, you know, what's happening. and it could work as long as they pay respect to the source material and tie it into the Star Trek universe in in some way. That's the beauty of Star Trek. You can make that work either way. As long as the writing's good and you, you know, you pay the homage to the

as we call it, the prime universe. so and then I trust Blueber at this point. When I saw it was Blueber, I said,

Ty (19:03.213)
Yeah.

Uly (19:04.767)
I just thought like, if the whole game would took place in that hologram room? You know what I'm talking about? Where they once got stuck in like the holiday of like 1960, Chicago or something like that. Like that's just the game. It's just them.

Greg (19:10.408)
The hollow deck.

Greg (19:18.164)
But you know that could work because there's been episodes where they've been trapped in the hollow deck in a hollow program with risks of actually dying because you can remove the safeties. So yeah, they could they could have the entire game and you know it's the hollow deck locked into the hollow deck and it'd still be a scary Star Trek experience because people write those programs, other aliens write programs. A lot of things could go wrong in a hollow deck.

Uly (19:23.747)
Yes.

Ty (19:25.699)
Mm-hmm.

Greg (19:47.751)
A lot.

Ty (19:48.683)
It could.

Uly (19:50.062)
Like I was just thought it was because there was an episode where they found like this spaceship with frozen cryo pods with people from like to 1998 he was 2002 and they brought him into this world and one dude was like this rich like imagine. That's your character you unfrozen into Star Trek and you

Greg (20:14.354)
Yeah. Or yeah, that would be a great premise. Like the ship comes under attack. You're woken up in a future you're not familiar with, trying to navigate.

Uly (20:22.722)
So you have to relearn every, have to learn everything at great way to experience it.

Ty (20:26.275)
So y'all just wanna Star Trek Isekai?

Uly (20:30.394)
Boom. Who you talking to? Who you talking to? Yeah, yeah, ask our favorite animes, you'll know.

Ty (20:31.427)
That

Greg (20:32.252)
Absolutely. Absolutely. Look at that.

Ty (20:37.135)
I'm just summing up for everybody. They want a Star Trek Isakai.

Greg (20:39.828)
Star Trek East the guy. Yeah. But yeah, those are some of the games listed. other notables, of course. Stellar Blade, Blood Rain. Yes. More Stellar Blade, please.

Uly (20:49.59)
Listen, yes.

Ty (20:49.881)
So

You know what's funny about that? There's people complaining online about what the main character looks like. And I'm like, Yeah, I can't make up your goddamn mind, can you?

Greg (21:03.516)
No, I you know, that's an unavoidable argument at this point. Like I I don't even think people are actually upset. People just know what gets people talking.

Uly (21:09.89)
You either want them to look good ish or you want them to look ugly as fuck and then there's no winning in between. And then if you

Greg (21:17.076)
There yeah, there's no winning.

Ty (21:17.697)
No, people are complaining she's short.

Uly (21:21.084)
that! yeah, that's annoying. I'm like, what the fuck?

Ty (21:24.335)
They're they're like they're like, my god, what happened to E what what was her name? Eve? Yeah, what happened to Eve? Who's this short woman? Da da da da da. Why would y'all do that? Eve was perfect.

Greg (21:30.299)
Eve. Eve.

Uly (21:31.281)
Eve.

Uly (21:35.581)
I'm sorry. You didn't play the game. You didn't play the game. You didn't play the first game to know what happened.

Greg (21:36.915)
Okay, first, if people actually exactly if they finish the first game, they know what happened to Eve. It doesn't it wouldn't make sense to have Eve come back. If you did the actually any of the endings, it pretty much said Eve is done. Like she could be a character that appears in the second game, but there's no way for her to be the main character.

Uly (21:46.968)
her back.

Ty (21:47.03)
Inf

Ty (22:03.663)
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Greg (22:05.63)
So I don't know. Like that's that's where you get the crowd of gamers who just refuse to let go because it's kind of like the cloud sephirot syndrome, as I call it. Yeah, I'm not gonna get you started on that. Nothing gonna get you started on that. looky here. If I hit

Ty (22:12.226)
Yes.

Ty (22:18.573)
Nope. Don't piss me the fuck off.

Because I'm already very weirded out about Final Fantasy, well the new Final Fantasy that's coming out. And it's nothing bad, right? I know we're jumping. It's nothing bad. It's just I so used to Tyler voicing Sephiroth that when I when I heard the voice, I was like, this is not the same Sephiroth.

Uly (22:46.829)
Hehehehehe

Ty (22:53.825)
It's close, but it's not the same person. And then come to find out, fun little lore about Sephiroth and voice actors. Every voice actor that has played Sephiroth has played Superman at one point in time.

Greg (23:07.977)
Yeah.

Uly (23:08.238)
When has Travis played Superman? Hold up.

Ty (23:09.197)
Yeah. Every voice actor that has voiced Sephiroth at one point in time has voiced Superman in something. The current The current Sephiroth, if I remember right, he was Superman Red Sun.

Greg (23:19.708)
That's actually kinda cool.

Uly (23:27.444)
He was Superman Red's son.

Ty (23:30.945)
So, fun little lore fact about that, every actor will voice actor that has voiced Sephiroth has been Clark Kent at one point in time.

Uly (23:31.479)
You are correct.

Greg (23:40.404)
That's crazy.

Ty (23:41.815)
And I had to bring that up because my brain would not let that go. Yep.

Greg (23:45.736)
That's crazy. That's intentional. They they're picking

Uly (23:48.374)
No, not just that, he was also in...

Ty (23:50.319)
'Cause I don't think a lot of people realize Tyler, I can never pronounce his last name. How shen Hu Shen?

Uly (23:57.208)
How do you gonna you can't ask me I can't pronounce it either. Yeah, we're gonna

Ty (23:59.662)
I'm gonna butcher his name every time. But basically, the man that played Superman and Superman and Lois, phenomenal series, was Sephiroth. And a lot of people don't realize that was Sephiroth. But they're like, huh. That is range.

Uly (24:08.321)
Yes.

Greg (24:12.829)
Yeah.

Uly (24:12.898)
Yep.

Uly (24:17.144)
That is... That is dope. That Travis's voice.

Greg (24:18.088)
That's that is range. and if I had gone here further further down my notes, it does clearly say the wolf among us too. See, this is why notes are important, y'all. I was stuck in the past. It happens, it happens. Grounded two, the mighty cuphead adventure, and yeah, yeah. Power World, the one point update comes out.

Uly (24:23.629)
Monster Hunter!

Ty (24:29.219)
Mm-hmm.

Ty (24:32.751)
No, it's the one.

Ty (24:39.233)
Have fun with trauma.

Uly (24:41.176)
video.

Ty (24:44.577)
Up good. Mm-hmm.

Uly (24:46.978)
Yes.

Greg (24:47.34)
And Star Wars Zero Company. But Monster Hunter. Monster Hunter.

Uly (24:50.376)
I... Come on, you know. Monster, honey, you know!

Ty (24:52.333)
Y'all said what? the new expansion that's coming out?

Uly (24:57.964)
The expansion is gonna look the stories the videos we have of us playing Monster Hunter and for some reason me coming in with the shield blocking an attack and Greg still getting hit right behind me for some reason

Greg (24:58.214)
Ascendance. Yeah.

Greg (25:10.258)
Like it's like I have the only person I can trust with a shield is myself because the game is just like you're not hiding? No. We don't no.

Ty (25:11.555)
Good to have.

Uly (25:20.642)
That's like, that's like charge attack. All right, cool guys. Stand behind me. I'll be your shield. I take the hit and somehow Greg is flying across the map because he took a hit. Yeah. Run right behind me and then just disappear at the same time.

Greg (25:24.987)
No.

Ty (25:28.729)
Fifty feet away.

Greg (25:29.982)
Yeah, there's a clip where you had like the perfect angle where you see me like all like slightly off camera.

I just can't delete it off the system.

Ty (25:40.771)
And I'll never understand their hatred for you when it comes to that.

Greg (25:44.894)
I don't know. It's I I have like terrible luck in video games and yet I love video games. I I never learn.

Uly (25:50.06)
You know what's funny? What's funny about the Pal World thing too is like when they announced 1.0 I'm like, the game wasn't done? I spent so many hours playing this I thought y'all were done.

Greg (26:00.007)
Right. They're and they said it, they're nowhere near done.

Ty (26:00.73)
So, yeah, no, I've always so I'm the weirdo that has always looked at Power World, like when it first came out, as like a tech demo. I don't know why. Like I felt it was a full game, but at the same time, I've always kind of looked at it like, yeah, you're just a tech demo. Like, you're gonna really do what the fuck you're gonna do here in later years, right? So

when they come came out and was we got one point five coming out, I was there it is, that's the real version.

Uly (26:36.204)
Yeah, I'm like, all right, cool. I'm gonna.

Greg (26:38.676)
Yeah, a lot of people forget that it was still technically early access. When you have a game that's as full as that for early access.

Uly (26:44.404)
yeah, no, when you play that long and you do almost everything like you play that long, you're fully into the game. You forget like, this was the early access game.

Greg (26:55.176)
Yep. Yeah. So yeah, now it's gonna be the the full game and I'm I'm excited. I'm

Ty (26:55.606)
Uh-huh.

Uly (27:00.96)
Which is that's how you do early access. You basically release a game, make it feel like it's a full game up until you release the full game and surprise the fuck out of everyone else.

Greg (27:07.54)
Right. Yep. Exactly. That's how you do it. Don't do that.

Ty (27:10.851)
Don't pull a multiverses. That's how you release the tech in me.

Uly (27:12.942)
don't do that.

Greg (27:15.73)
Don't do that. Yeah, don't do that. but before we move on to our next segment, I gotta do the merch plug. Guys, if you haven't already, go visit the G Zchopshop.com. Get yourself some exclusive merch. Gonna switch the cam here so you guys can get a good look. Get the Teen Gamma Games t shirt. Comes with a comes with the

Uly (27:37.142)
Yo, do we say shaft?

Greg (27:43.464)
GZ logo. The mic's covering a little bit, but if you look you get the G Z logo and then another

Ty (27:47.598)
Mm-hmm.

Uly (27:47.64)
For all our podcast listeners that don't have a video on, Greg switched the camera from a bottom up view so you can see his physique that he's worked hard on.

Greg (27:58.989)
Yeah, I hit the gym, hit the gym. And and you guys can show your physique in the amazing teen Gamma Games t-shirt. Comes in multiple colors, fits snug, has a removable tag so it's not irritating your neck.

Ty (28:01.807)
Mm-hmm.

Uly (28:11.598)
What is the material is it I forgot it was like cotton something else it was comfortable so it's comfortable

Greg (28:15.56)
What? 100% cotton. It's very comfortable, guys. GZ merch. G GZ chopshop.com. Use code TEAMGZ for 20% off your order. The logo's also on the back, but I can't turn all the way around in my chair. So fortunately you guys, you're gonna have to but it's on the back. Really good.

Ty (28:21.033)
god, there's a joke I wanna say, but I can't say it. It would get you demonetized so fast. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

Uly (28:37.238)
Also, he's not wearing any pants. So if he stands up, you're going to see something you don't want to see. You're the sun will eclipse.

Greg (28:40.244)
I'm wearing pants.

Ty (28:40.781)
Yeah.

Ty (28:44.845)
Yeah, he he's trying not to sell booty ho.

Greg (28:47.176)
Yeah, you know, I it I'm not gonna lie, it was really hard trying to get this camera in an angle that I was like, these guys, I don't want them being able to make any jokes. But they were gonna make jokes. Well

Uly (28:47.886)
You

Uly (28:54.19)
Oh, we're gonna make jokes. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

Ty (28:57.997)
Yeah, I almost said, my god, I can see your nip up

Uly (29:01.058)
Yeah.

Greg (29:01.345)
Okay.

Greg (29:06.142)
So moving on to our next segment, let's talk a little bit about the Xbox game showcase. For you guys wondering about our thoughts on the state of play, we put out a blog and we broke that down on the G Z Chop Shop Uncut, which is available exclusive. exclusive, I can't even talk today.

Uly (29:22.476)
I'll give you a tidbit of what it is. I was disappointed.

Ty (29:23.777)
Exclusively on Patreon.

Greg (29:26.174)
Exclusively on Patreon. We're already really deep in the episode, so if I start messing up words, just just just cover for me. Look.

Uly (29:32.706)
No, I'm not a of that. I'm a fan of that.

Ty (29:33.442)
huh.

Ty (29:37.315)
Sound like a Missy Elliott song.

Uly (29:39.273)
HAHAHAHA

Ty (29:42.303)
And we're having a flip flip root

Uly (29:43.724)
God damn it.

Greg (29:45.172)
Listen, there is a lot of stuff to cover. So my brain's been like on overlow because like this week was like everything. It was a lot of games. Okay.

Uly (29:58.318)
Not a lot, yeah, no, not really. was like five maybe.

Greg (30:00.127)
For for for your personal take, guys, what did you think about the Xbox showcase first?

Ty (30:10.201)
Who do you want to answer first?

Uly (30:10.24)
I like, I'll answer, I'll answer first. I'll be this. I like the games that I like and didn't care for anything else.

Ty (30:20.601)
Sure.

Greg (30:21.076)
Pretty simple, straight to the point. I dig it. Tie.

Uly (30:22.126)
Pretty soon.

Ty (30:24.163)
And I

Ty (30:30.659)
Very similar. Like it was a good to me, it was a good showcase, right? For the games that I like. So love them announcing gears. I know a lot of people that are Sony fans are super upset because they were nigged on the original agreement with gears, just gears, being tied together. However,

Greg (30:38.014)
Mm-hmm.

Ty (30:58.391)
Even though I am a more of a Sony player than an Xbox player, I am all for this. And her reasoning makes perfect sense. Hey, why are we going to keep multi-platin games when we want people to come back to Xbox? So let's keep some shit to ourselves so that we we have people actually coming to buy an Xbox and playing on an Xbox, right?

I'm for that. Like everybody's like, well, I can just buy it on Steam. Cool, that's fine. But sometimes you want something exclusive to yourself. And if I can keep something exclusive, I'm gonna keep something exclusive. Hence why I'm for gears being an Xbox only game.

Greg (31:50.195)
Yeah, when they when they ha and you know what's funny, they pretty much admitted that there is a drive out there for the PS5 that has Gears of War E Day mostly completed because they were they were pretty much right there. It was like near done, ready to go. And they're like, Yeah, we're gonna keep that. And I didn't feel any kind of way about it because I also am primarily a Sony player. And I actually was like, you know what? I like that for you guys. Good on you.

Ty (32:01.4)
Mm-hmm.

Greg (32:19.23)
Give me a reason to potentially buy yep.

Ty (32:22.841)
Turn my shit on.

Uly (32:24.374)
Yeah, well, that's the only reason I play my Xbox is just to play Gears of War. replay the Gears of War I have on my console because that's the only reason I like the Xbox because it gives war. Halo is cool. Gears was always my game and Tide don't make that fucking joke. I told you.

Greg (32:37.886)
Gears, yeah, Gears was my Xbox game. So I'm kind of like, and and I have it wish listed on Steam. And yes, I could hit, yeah, I could get it on Steam. But now I'm kind of like, you know what? You hit me with that 25th anniversary Xbox. It looks a little clean. I might, okay, Microsoft, and I will give Microsoft grace that they're going through a lot of changes. They're trying to roll back on a lot of things people didn't like, and they're trying to

Ty (32:40.194)
Yeah.

Ty (32:54.67)
Mm-hmm.

Greg (33:08.276)
Рінvent themselves.

Uly (33:10.154)
I like that Sharma is doing what she's doing. She's making Xbox competent again. Yeah.

Ty (33:14.639)
She's upholding her shit.

Greg (33:16.882)
Yeah. She's looking out for her Xbox players as she should. She's she's trying to bring bring the ones that may have left back, take care of the ones who have toughed it out and stayed while being welcoming to everyone else to say the doors are open to all of you to to come on in. Come to Xbox and see what we have to offer.

Uly (33:41.454)
The only bullshit throughout this whole thing and I talked to Greg about it was when they announced the collector's editions of the games that we like. I'm like, ain't no fucking way you're charging $200, $300 for these collector editions. On top of all, like the games being $80, $70 and some hundred dollars if you get.

Ty (33:41.752)
Yeah.

Greg (33:47.88)
Yeah.

Ty (34:01.432)
But unfortunately that is just a thing nowadays. Like even double seven, bro, the collector's edition was three hundred dollars.

Greg (34:11.294)
Yeah, collectors edition.

Uly (34:11.992)
Yeah, fine. Dude, it is.

Ty (34:13.729)
I didn't even know there was a collectioner's edition until after I bought the game and I was like, you get a golden gun. I was wondering I was like, what, this probably like one fifty. No, I saw three hundred. I was like, y'all some bitch.

Uly (34:21.858)
It was like, that gun better be made of metal. It can't be plastic. It can't be a little plastic.

Ty (34:27.405)
I have no idea I refuse to purchase the fucking three hundred dollar version of the game.

Greg (34:30.238)
Pay purchase the money and find out the hard way. Yeah.

Uly (34:32.918)
I don't know when you get a collector's edition, you get a nice statue of steel book case. You get, get a bunch of good stuff, but this like, yeah.

Greg (34:39.73)
And they were affordable. I bought the collector's edition of Mortal Kombat X that came with the Scorpion statue. Still got it. Love it. Yeah.

Uly (34:45.518)
It's like a hundred dollars, $150 or something like that. Now it's like, Oh yeah, you got to work, you know, depending on where you are and how much you get paid a week, maybe two weeks to get that. I take out a loan. Got to put it on Klarna guys. I'm sorry.

Ty (34:55.481)
Greg (34:56.852)
Gotta t gotta take out a loan.

Greg (35:02.804)
Yeah. man. It's crazy that games like you know, deviated here a little bit, but it's crazy games are getting to the point where you you could almost justify taking out a loan taking out alone.

Ty (35:16.697)
Right.

Uly (35:16.948)
Almost almost no you can justify it because yeah, you can it's not almost the way they how expensive they're getting Yeah, you can you can say it's like I'll pay you know an extra five dollars sir Like what is it fee on top of just paying ten bucks every two weeks?

Greg (35:20.04)
You could yeah.

Greg (35:32.072)
Yeah, 'cause like breaking up an eighty dollar payment to smaller ones for a game you really want is it sounds more appealing than back in the day where you just saved up your allowance for a few weeks and then boom, you could get your

Uly (35:46.158)
Cause you can afford $60 and probably eat top ramen for a day or two. You know, now it's like, if you want to buy a game, you have to eat top ramen for a month.

Greg (35:51.464)
Right. It's like

Ty (35:53.017)
But nowadays.

Greg (35:56.581)
Mm-hmm.

Ty (35:57.623)
And sell my soul to Lucifer.

Uly (35:59.628)
Yep. Or, or Crowley depending on which crossroad demon you get.

Greg (35:59.871)
Yeah. Yeah. Sign a contract to get your game.

Greg (36:06.558)
But any what are you guys thoughts on Fable?

Ty (36:07.095)
Supernatural.

Ty (36:13.357)
All right.

Uly (36:13.806)
Okay, hold up. I want to say this I think they listened to the fans when the first trailer dropped and they had the ugly characters And then they released this new one. I'm like, they they fixed them up They pretty them up a little bit because they know people were mad in the first time

Greg (36:21.523)
Mm.

Ty (36:30.137)
That's not even it for me. that game looks like they went out of their way to make it a lot darker. And y'all heard me say it in a private conversation, like, hey, that this new Fable is appearing a lot darker than I remember Fable ever being. Like Fable had its dark points, don't get it wrong, but

Greg (36:55.796)
But no one took it seriously because of the aesthetics.

Ty (36:58.323)
Yeah. But like the aesthetic for this is we're going full on creepy.

Greg (37:05.576)
Yeah, they pulled a Twilight Princess, basically. Like every yeah, that 'cause that's what Twilight Princess did when when it came out, it went the art went visually dark. And then we were like, Okay, is the story dark? And then we found out, yeah, okay. The story is dark.

Ty (37:09.453)
Yeah?

Uly (37:20.171)
It is.

which I want Nintendo to announce a remake.

Ty (37:26.511)
I don't but I will get to that a another time.

Uly (37:29.037)
I do.

Greg (37:31.484)
Yeah. so we all know about Halo. I don't think anyone's really jumping for joy over Halo. Halo's Halo.

Ty (37:38.488)
I alright, yeah, I did not give a fuck about Halo's announcement. I'm sorry. Like at all. It looked d yeah, I was like, cool. And that's sad to say because I used to be one of those people that loved when Halo was about to drop. Right? But this Halo just didn't do anything for me. Actually the last few years of Halo has done nothing for me.

Uly (37:42.39)
No, like, not at all. Okay.

Uly (38:03.255)
I think.

Uly (38:06.934)
Nothing. It doesn't bring back the memories of like LAN parties with halo 3 where you and your friends will bring the TVs and the X consoles to someone's house or someone's backyard and all of you there just fucking play and you can play that for 10 16 hours because you're with your friends you're there you're having fun and that does

Greg (38:14.31)
Right.

Ty (38:14.371)
Yeah.

Greg (38:17.918)
That's what made Halo shine.

Ty (38:28.803)
But with technology nowadays you would think like, Hey, yeah, we can just hop online and all play together but the allure's not there for me. Like at all, bro.

Uly (38:36.748)
Not there.

Greg (38:40.222)
Yeah.

Uly (38:40.742)
Yeah, hear the we don't play and got me my friends. We stopped playing major games made like, and then like a Madden battlefield card. Like we stopped playing those when we played goofy little games like peak that, airport security game. And then this, this like super golf shooting game where you try to, it's like Mario golf, hotshot golf. Is it hotshot golf? I do it. I mean, let me

Ty (39:03.727)
Like hot shot golf.

Ty (39:08.119)
I mean Yeah, it does. That's why I was like, are you talking about high shot golf or something else?

Greg (39:08.756)
Sounds hot shot golf.

Uly (39:09.934)
It's not it's it's a no here super battle golf

Greg (39:17.278)
Super battle golf. yeah, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Super battle golf.

Uly (39:19.054)
Yes, that game. Yeah. We, yeah, we play those goofy $10 games because they are more entertaining than majors 70, $80 games.

Ty (39:19.35)
sure.

Greg (39:31.12)
Right, right, right. Yeah, they're fun pick up and play games that don't need a huge time sink to enjoy or get far in. It's literally pick up, play, have fun, and then you go do something else.

Ty (39:31.769)
Fair.

Uly (39:35.287)
Yeah.

Ty (39:43.863)
And sometimes all you want to do is play something to turn your brain off.

Greg (39:47.155)
Right, exactly. Exactly. well two that piqued my interest personally, a playtale Residence Legacy looks pretty good to me. and Castlevania Belmont's curse.

Uly (39:47.8)
Just have fun with the boys.

Uly (39:57.899)
fun.

Uly (40:02.562)
That one, I was excited for that one. I'm like, all right.

Ty (40:02.901)
I wanna talk about that.

Really wanna talk about

Uly (40:08.234)
All right, say it.

Ty (40:11.139)
That seems like Cypher and Trevor's kid.

Greg (40:14.676)
That's what I was thinking. I think that's yes.

Uly (40:15.5)
That's what it looked like.

Ty (40:18.435)
And that they changed the lore. That seems and I said it the second they dropped it. I think I was talking to you, Greg. I think I was only said it to you. I was like, yo, I think they just changed lore. Cause I'm pretty sure that is Cypher and Trevor's kid. Like I'm almost positive that is Cypher and Trevor's kid. I could be fucking wrong, but

Greg (40:35.316)
Yep, because

Greg (40:41.556)
I don't think you are. I'm willing to hedge my bets that it's Cypher and Trevor's Kid, especially with how well that yep.

Ty (40:47.021)
The magic. It's the magic that made me think that.

Greg (40:52.078)
And and you know, with how well that that series was received, there's an opportunity there for Konami to still capitalize off that audience because you know that might have been their introduction to Castlevania. And instead of repeating with the characters that have already had their turn, this was perfect. This was absolutely perfect, and if

Ty (41:15.523)
Mm-hmm.

Greg (41:20.468)
Is Cypher and Trevor's kid Chef's Kiss. Chef's kiss and I knew yes. I

Ty (41:22.987)
I have so many questions.

Yeah, I have so many questions.

Uly (41:29.634)
It was doggy style.

Greg (41:34.26)
Because when you think about it, you gotta remember what Trevor did and how powerful Cypher was.

Uly (41:36.942)
you

Uly (41:41.582)
You guys asked a question I

Greg (41:43.06)
I'm trying guys, I'm trying to get through this. Yuli always does this. He always does this.

It wasn't

Ty (41:51.855)
God.

Greg (41:54.825)
Greg (41:58.485)
Okay, anyway, I hope it's their kid. I hope it's their kid.

Ty (42:01.166)
Me too! Especially since Trevor was the first Belmont to actually kill Dracula.

Greg (42:09.214)
Mm-hmm.

Uly (42:11.854)
he fought death and won.

Greg (42:12.114)
And then did he fight death?

Ty (42:14.807)
So okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. Are we talking anime rules? Are we talking in game lore rules? 'Cause in game lore rules, a little bit different. Yes, he did fight death though.

Greg (42:22.376)
I think they're going I think well

Yeah. Yeah. I think I think Konami's gonna do a blend of the two because if you're right and they change the lore, I think they're gonna pull from I think they're gonna they're gonna honor the game because it would be stupid of them to undo their entire thing. Now, yeah, they've changed things a c a few times.

Ty (42:42.339)
Mm-hmm.

Ty (42:50.157)
I mean Konami's changed the game twice already.

Greg (42:52.968)
They've changed it to yeah, they've changed the origins twice, but I think the anime gives them that opening to still stay faithful to what they've established, take from what they've established, and pull from what has proven to be a successful story arc, the first season, the the Trevor Belmont season, and bring it together into this game if that's what they're doing. And it looks like that's what they're doing.

Uly (43:12.269)
Yeah.

Ty (43:20.601)
Like I legit think that. But you can't really tell unless they say what year it takes place. And if they say what year it takes place, process of elimination, god. Like I would know almost immediately if they were like, yeah, this takes place in the 1600s. That is Trevor's fucking dead!

Greg (43:35.752)
Yep. But I really hope it's their kid.

Greg (43:45.684)
That's that's travel. That's I forgot.

Uly (43:45.838)
Okay, here we go wait Let me see. When is this game? Okay, so It comes in October taking place in 1499 23 years after the events of Castlevania 3 Dracula's curse and Castlevania curse of darkness the story oh Yeah, look it says right here the story follows Rose Belmont daughter of vampire hunter Trevor Belmont and his wife Cypher Belnades who ventures into the titular castle

Ty (43:51.819)
It comes out in October. I already wish this

Ty (44:03.683)
That is Trevor's life as kid.

Greg (44:04.02)
Yeah.

Greg (44:11.742)
There we go!

Ty (44:14.777)
Yuli, you didn't have to say anything else. The second you said it takes place in like fourteen, what you said, fourteen ninety three? Fourteen ninety nine. I was like, hmm. Okay. So if it took place at 16, it would be Richter. It'd be Richter's bloodline. Well, I shouldn't say bloodline, because they're all the same fucking bloodline. But the second you said 14, I'm like, this takes place after Castlevania three.

Uly (44:15.115)
As a man of

Uly (44:21.454)
$14.99. Yep.

Greg (44:28.68)
Math is mathing.

Yeah.

Uly (44:36.129)
Yeah

Greg (44:36.5)
It'd be it'd be yeah.

Uly (44:42.2)
Mm-hmm.

Ty (44:43.629)
This takes place right after Castlevania three. And then lo and behold, you kept adding and adding. And this is fun fact, people, this is the third game, third spinoff game of Castlevania three.

Greg (45:02.406)
Yeah. Yeah.

Ty (45:03.151)
Because yeah. I can't remember the name of the first one.

There's a spinoff that takes place right after Castlevania three.

Then there is almost a Lemon or Harmony, but that's not it. what was the fucking name? It was a PS two Castlevania game.

Greg (45:22.164)
Uly (45:25.528)
Goddamnit, let me find it.

Greg (45:28.628)
Hold on guys. We're all we're all we're all checking. Curse of darkness.

Uly (45:28.75)
That's it for the only one.

Ty (45:32.153)
Curse of Darkness. Yeah. Cause I was about to say Lem Lamont of Innocence, but that was the other game that replaced a lot of lore of Castlevania. But Curse of Darkness is the game that takes place after Castlevania three. And Curse of Darkness is the first time you get introduced to Hector, the Forge Master, and Isaac.

Uly (45:32.493)
more.

Uly (45:37.058)
Yeah, Curse of Dark You.

Uly (45:42.924)
God damn.

Greg (45:46.003)
Yeah.

Greg (45:57.309)
Okay, and this just reminded me the because I'm pretty sure you would have mentioned it because we got the so there's the direct game sequels and the extensions. Castle this is actually the second Belmont's curse. there's Castlevania Belmont's Curse from nineteen ninety one.

Uly (46:13.592)
because it's

Ty (46:16.728)
Yes.

Greg (46:19.449)
and that was released for the Game Boy. But that that one followed Christopher Belmont.

Who was Simon Belmontster direct ancestor?

Ty (46:31.181)
Descend it.

Greg (46:34.012)
And it was a chronological spinoff. then there's Castlevania Bloodlines from nineteen ninety-four released for the Sega Genesis.

Greg (46:45.149)
So

Uly (46:45.25)
So what we're saying is the anime only scratches part of the lore.

Greg (46:49.584)
like it actually only scratches like a very tiny bit.

Ty (46:52.995)
They yeah, they changed a lot of shit in the anime.

Greg (46:56.444)
Yeah. And and understandably so, because you can't do an adaptation of a video game because the video game lore is superbly more expansive because they have the room to work with to tell a story of that grand scale. adaptations are never going to be able to do play by play, quote by quote, because it would take too long. Like every episode would be like several episodes.

Ty (47:23.107)
Mm-hmm.

Greg (47:26.068)
hours just to cover a fragment of the lore. And they're still gonna miss something. You know, even Lord of the Rings had to cut and change stuff because it was just too expansive of a world.

Ty (47:33.197)
Well yeah.

Ty (47:40.771)
Well like alright, prime prime example is Castlevania the anime.

Uly (47:45.547)
Optimus Prime.

Ty (47:50.908)
The original trio that was with Trevor, there was a trio, and it wasn't just Trevor, Alacard, and Seipha. It was Trevor, Alacard, Sypher, and Grant. Grant's never shown, Grant's never really mentioned, but as I digress. Then

Another thing that was changed, Isaac, lore wise in the games, is Irish.

And Hector's true love is Isaac's sister in the games. Anime, we saw how the fuck that worked out. And Isaac had the probably the biggest character change, but the best character development from the lore when it came to the anime. They completely reworked his shit and it worked beautifully.

Greg (48:30.056)
Yeah, they came exactly.

Greg (48:39.859)
Mm-hmm.

Greg (48:47.176)
You know what? I think we need to I think this makes it clear we need to have a Castlevania episode in the future.

Ty (48:57.505)
Okay. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Because this is the same same shit as when Daniel decided to be like, Hey, can you explain fake to me? No.

Greg (48:57.523)
Yeah.

Uly (48:58.456)
I don't think we can have like a six hour episode.

Greg (49:07.358)
Fa Fate? Yeah. No, it unfortunately it couldn't be on this podcast. It would have to be on the G Z Chop Shop Uncut because that would take that'd be broken up into very long episodics.

Uly (49:09.642)
Uly (49:15.661)
No.

Uly (49:19.086)
400 episodes, 403 hour episodes.

Greg (49:22.376)
Hey, you know, you gotta get into the get into the lore, get into the nitty gritty. I think I I that's still not gonna be enough. It'll be fun, guys. It'll be fun. What do you hey guys? Guys, in the comments, let us know. Let us know. Well a thousand likes, we'll do it. A thousand likes.

Uly (49:26.826)
And looking at Ty's face is like, that's not even enough.

Ty (49:30.167)
not I'm not doing it. That means I have to go back and play every Castlevania game. And I love Castlevania. I'm not doing it.

Uly (49:32.755)
Hahaha

Uly (49:42.894)
Oh, you know what? Oh, fuck that. 10,000. Anyway, I'm gonna move on because I wanna talk about this game. Metro 2039. I'm a huge Metro fan since I, oh man, played the first, well, not the first game, but they released the remake, cause I never touched Metro before the first remake.

Greg (50:06.131)
Mm.

Ty (50:06.435)
Mm-hmm.

Uly (50:07.512)
Fucking loved it. Loved the world, loved RTM, loved the way they created this post-apocalyptic Russia. Then, you you got First Light, then we get into, Fuck, what's the... What was the third game called? I can't remember now. When you escape the subway systems... Exodus! Exodus! Exodus! Exodus! Goddamnit. See? And just the...

Greg (50:27.668)
I think I know what you're talking about. I haven't Exodus.

Ty (50:28.417)
Awakening? no.

Uly (50:36.878)
The things that I missed, like people would say, you're saying read the books. I was like, I have to read the books now. They're building onto it. And I'm like, fuck, I got to actually read the books. Cause I'm curious. How does this connect?

Ty (50:49.795)
Yeah.

Uly (50:51.224)
How does this?

I'm, I'm in. How's all tied together? How? Cause if you played Exodus, you know how it ends. There certain characters don't live. So now I'm like, who is this? What are we doing? How are we going to do this?

Greg (50:56.082)
Like how does it all tie together? Yeah.

Greg (51:12.35)
And then they had their standalone VR prequel, which was awa awakening.

Uly (51:17.142)
Awakening.

Which one?

Greg (51:20.584)
Yeah, it's a beloved series. so I knew I I I knew there was gonna be a lot of hype around 2039. So yeah, I I wanna get into it. I actually do own two of the games. I own Exodus and I do own Awakening because I'm a I really do love VR games. I just I just haven't started. I'm I'm gonna wait till I I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna get all of the ones.

Ty (51:43.247)
Yeah.

Greg (51:50.291)
are available and play them from the beginning all the way up until twenty thirty nine comes out. and actually apparently if I start with the VR, that's the prequel, so I actually So they'll be doing it in order.

Uly (52:00.386)
Yeah. I would say this, Greg, if you play in the first game, pay the hooker. That's all I'm going to say.

Ty (52:01.359)
Yeah.

Greg (52:10.074)
Okay.

Okay I somehow I just

Uly (52:14.479)
I was almost like, I want you to experience what doesn't happen.

Greg (52:20.978)
Got it.

Ty (52:21.219)
That that's that's fucked but fair.

Greg (52:25.498)
Okay, good to know. Okay. well, last segment, very, very short before we we get out of here for the day. Which showcase do you guys think took it for the week?

Uly (52:30.136)
that.

Uly (52:38.936)
Summer Game Fest.

Ty (52:40.861)
Uly (52:43.874)
Summer Game Fest, I'm just Veronica, Stellar Blade.

Greg (52:47.09)
I mean they did work they had two hours to work with too.

Ty (52:47.204)
Yeah.

Ty (52:50.617)
That's the problem. That right there. I was about to say the other two were shorter shows. And then.

Ty (53:01.589)
State of play, even though it was like, we're only showing exclusives. Gamefest kinda did similar. It was like, hey, we're only showing exclusives, but y'all had more time to play with when and most of the games weren't exclusives.

Greg (53:16.914)
And they were dipping into all parties.

Uly (53:19.03)
Yeah, you know, although one game we forgot to mention was Spyro. You guys excited for Spyro at all? An OG character?

Ty (53:19.17)
Yeah.

Greg (53:27.262)
I didn't get to play Spyro as a kid, so I don't have that nostalgia factor.

Uly (53:30.218)
Okay, good. I don't either, so.

Ty (53:30.927)
AHHHH

Like like, it's cool. Don't get me fucked up. But like

Greg (53:35.706)
It's cool. It's cool.

Uly (53:36.822)
It is cool. Well, Spyro fans, let us know in the comments how much you don't like us. We need the interactions.

Greg (53:42.387)
Yeah.

Ty (53:42.617)
But like it's one of those moments where it's like, man

It was one of those games where I was just like, Yeah, this is kind of a dope announcement, but I I really

Greg (53:54.089)
Yeah, it's spiral. I I have nothing personally against Spiral. It's just one of the it's one of the franchises I didn't get to play, so I don't have that that nostalgia connection to.

Ty (54:05.715)
Right. And that makes sense. It like I said, it's one of those ones where it's just like, Hey, I'm not mad at you for this, but like end of the day, I I really don't give a fuck. Like, it's cool. I just

it's kinda like one of them Tuesday activity moments.

Greg (54:28.69)
Right, like you can you could yeah. But you know, for everyone who is excited for Spyro, you know, we're happy for you. We want that for you. There's there's always gonna be those games that certain people are gonna be excited for that someone else will be like, it's just what you play. You know, you love what you love and you don't know what you don't know. But

Ty (54:49.283)
Yeah. Like Cod. I didn't give a fuck about that Cod announcement.

Greg (54:53.563)
yeah.

Uly (54:54.424)
No, yeah.

Uly (54:58.596)
but they got soap versus ghost.

Greg (55:02.196)
Cool.

Ty (55:03.373)
I might buy this one. It's been three years.

Greg (55:04.872)
I see that, you know, I see that as a red herring because they did that with Halo and they made it look like it was gonna be this big thing with Halo five.

Uly (55:12.78)
No, I can already tell it's going to be one of those things where it's like they have one mission where they fight each other and then the next mission they're working together to beat the actual big bad.

Greg (55:19.824)
Yeah, because the mission or they fight each other is like, you know, what's what's the saying to fool the enemy you must first you fool your friends kind of thing. So it's i he yeah, that's what I think is gonna happen. I'm calling it now. It's it's all a big play.

Ty (55:19.907)
Yeah.

Ty (55:26.702)
Yeah.

Uly (55:27.114)
Yeah.

Ty (55:34.477)
Like I said, I'm not excited for it. I'll probably end up picking this one up 'cause it's the first one that like actually piqued the interest for me.

Uly (55:40.642)
I like how they said they're not gonna do any funny skins or anything like that, but I bet you one of the second or third skins to come out for the online, for the multiplayer, is gonna be K-pop, like, artist. Yeah.

Ty (55:54.511)
K-Pon Demon Hunter. I can see that. Definitely can see that.

Uly (55:58.392)
Cause it's taking place in Korea. They would not miss the chance to bring in like BTS. Cause then some of the members go into the military. All of it. So there you go. They have them in uniform. They can put them in the game. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Ty (56:05.664)
All of did.

Greg (56:05.778)
Yeah. There yeah.

Ty (56:09.357)
Yeah, i that was a mandatory thing.

Greg (56:13.53)
I so I actually learned that they were actually exempt. They chose to do it.

Ty (56:18.975)
shit.

Uly (56:20.046)
You know what? Respect. Respect.

Greg (56:20.243)
Yeah.

Yeah, because of their popularity, they were actually exempt. so yeah, kudos to them on that. But that's all the time we've got. So that's the GZ Chop Shop for the week. Subscribe to the press play gaming newsletter for the written breakdown of all of this, plus codes, deals, and pretty much the things we didn't have time to cover here. So for now.

Ty (56:27.235)
Hmm.

Uly (56:46.434)
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Greg (56:49.246)
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